Gunman Kills 3 at Municipal Meeting in Pennsylvania

　　There's been another mass shooting in the United States.

 

　　This time, three people are dead after a gunman opened fire on a municipal council meeting in a small community in the east coast state of Pennsylvania.

 

　　Three others are also said to be in critical condition.

 

　　Over a dozen people were at the town council meeting when the shooting broke out.

 

　　The suspected shooter, 59-year old Rockne Newell, was arrested shortly after the rampage.

 

　　Pennsylvania state police officer Robert Bartal.

 

　　"He's had an on-going dispute with township officials something about the condemnation¹ of his property and issues relating to his sewer², I'm not really sure if he personally knew the individuals who had been killed tonight or not. I believe one of them is in official capacity with the township so, you would assume that he did know them but I don't know that to be a fact."

 

　　Newell was ordered by a local court last year to leave his home for violating zoning and sewer regulations.

 

　　He was reportedly unemployed³ for years, living out of a car or in abandoned buildings.

1 condemnation   

n.谴责; 定罪

参考例句：

• There was widespread condemnation of the invasion. 那次侵略遭到了人们普遍的谴责。
• The jury's condemnation was a shock to the suspect. 陪审团宣告有罪使嫌疑犯大为震惊。

2 sewer   

n.排水沟，下水道

参考例句：

• They are tearing up the street to repair a sewer. 他们正挖开马路修下水道。
• The boy kicked a stone into the sewer. 那个男孩把一石子踢进了下水道。

3 unemployed   

adj.失业的，没有工作的；未动用的，闲置的

参考例句：

• There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.这个国家现有四百万失业人员。
• The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作。